Bitcoin Protocols and BIPs Articles

BIP-110 Explained made simple. See the main facts, costs, risks and practical checks before you make a decision.

BIP 450 guide to Draft Formosa themed mnemonic stories, entropy and checksum mapping, theme JSON, BIP39 conversion, passphrases and recovery safety.

BIP 323 guide to the Draft proposal reserving block-header version bits 5 to 28 for mining nonce space, signalling masks, compatibility and firmware tests.

BIP 441 guide to the Draft tapleaf 0xC2 script-restoration proposal, varops, stack limits, unsigned arithmetic, restored opcodes and safety testing.

BIP 440 guide to the Draft transaction-wide variable-operation budget, weight scaling, opcode cost classes, benchmarks, validation and soft-fork status.

BIP 393 guide to Draft descriptor annotations for birth height, gap limit and Silent Payment max label, checksum rules, parsing and recovery safety.

BIP 361 guide to the Draft informational post-quantum migration and legacy-signature sunset proposal, phases, prerequisites, risks and readiness planning.

BIP 392 guide to Draft sp() descriptors, spscan and spspend encodings, watch-only and full-wallet forms, key origins, recovery and validation.

BIP 376 guide to Draft PSBTv2 Silent Payment spend fields, updater, signer and finalizer roles, tweak verification, privacy and hardware-wallet safety.

BIP 128 guide to Draft timelock-recovery plan storage, presigned transaction pairs, relative delay, checksums, monitoring, cancellation and reorg safety.

BIP 391 guide to the Closed Binary Output Descriptor format, PSBT-style maps, key references, birth metadata, validation and proposed replacement.

BIP 433 guide to Draft keyless Pay to Anchor outputs, CPFP fee bumping, standardness, ephemeral dust, TRUC anti-pinning and wallet safety.